Nether garment



Dec. 1,1931. c. w. HUTCHINSON NETHER GARMENT Filed March 18, 1929 2 Sheets-Sheet INVENTOR [/Zarlefi W/mZc/zmson BY ATTORNEY WITNESSES Dec. '1, 1931.

C. W. HUTCHINSON NETHER GARMENT Filed March 18, 1929 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTOR [harks Wf/uZc/zinson ATTORNEY WlTNESSES Patented Dec. 1, 1931 UNITED STATES CHARLES W. HUTCHINSON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

NETHIER GARMENT Application filed March 18, 1929. Serial No. 347,979.

This invention relates to garments, and has particular reference to an improvement in mens nether garments, such as drawers, union suits, pajamas or negligee shirts having drawers attached thereto.

Primarily, the invention comprehends an improved nether garment in which the legs are independent and indirectly connected to each other by or at the waist band so that they may be opened along the line extending throug -iout the fly, crotch and seat portions.

The invention further contemplates in a nether garment of the construction set forth, an overlap at the fly, crotch and seat portions, which overlap falls into a position to close the disconnected portions and to cause the same to remain closed without the aid of buttons or other equivalent fastening elements.

The invention further aims to provide a nether garment which eliminates binding in the seat or crotch portions and, hence, affords greater comfort to the wearer.

The invention furthermore embodies a nether garment which eliminates buttoning and unbuttoning of the same except when donning or removing the garment.

As a still further object, the invention comprehends a nether garment which affords a pocket for the reception and support of the genital organs.

Other objects of the invention reside in the facility with which the garment may be out and stitched in order to economize in its production, and this without requiring any appreciable increase in the amount of material required.

WVith the above recited and other objects in View, reference is had to the following description and accompanying drawings, in which there is exhibited one example or embodiment of the invention, while the claim defines the actual scope of the same.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a front perspective view of the garment.

Figure 2 is a horizontal sectional view taken approximately on the line indicated at 22 in Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a vertical transverse sectional view on a reduced scale taken approximately onthe line 3-3 of Figure 2.

Figure 4 isa vertical sectional View taken approximately on the line 1% of Figure 3.

Figure 5 is a rear View of the garment unbuttoned and opened up.

Referring to the drawings by characters of reference, A and B designate generally the right and left leg elements of the garment, and C the waist band. The leg A in cludes a front panel or section and a rear panel or section 11 which is joined .to the former section by the stitched sea-ms 12 and 13. The leg B includes a front panel or section 14 and a rear panel or section 15 which are joined by stitched seams 16 and 17. The rear panels 11 and 15 are cut on a concave are along a line which extends throughout the fly, seat and crotch portions and the rear section 15 of the left leg 13, in the present instance, has attached along the arcuate line by a stitched seam 18, a flat strip 19 which is designed to overlap and extend into the arouate cut-away portion of the right leg A. The strip 19 is so fashioned that the free edge thereof is of lesser length than the innermost free edge of the leg to which it is attached whereby it constitutes an extension which, upon donning of the garment, assumes a substantially semi-conical form tending to normally cause it to freely extend into the other leg of the garment for maintaining the fly, crotch and seat portions of the garment in a normally closed condition. The waist band element C is split and suitable means for detachably connecting the ends of the same in overlapped relation is provided, such as the buttons 20 and buttonholes 21. This affords means for permitting of the donning or removin of the garment and, obviously, while the fastening means is disclosed inthe present application of the garment, as arranged at the rear, said means may be within the scope of the invention disposed at the front of the garment. The legs are indirectly 0011- nected to each other by the waist band by a lineiof stitching 22 which extends through the upper edges of the front and rear panels, the opposite end edges of the flap 19 and the lower edges of the waist band element 0. 100

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Obviously, the front end edge of the flap 19 overlies and is stitched to portions of the upper edge of the panels or sections 10 and 11 and the right leg A. where the garment is r designed to be buttoned in the rear.

In use, the garment is opened up substantially inthe manner illustrated in Figure 5 when donning the same and the buttons 20 are engagedin the buttonholes 21 to retain the garment in place. When donned, it is obvious that the flap .oroverlap'ping portion 19of the leg B will extend into the leg A, as clearly illustrated in Figure 3. Opening of the crotch, seat andfiy portions of the r garment may be accomplished without the necessity of unbuttoning the garment, and closing of the same may be eilected by tuckingthe fiap or overlapping portion 19 of the leg B into the leg A. Buttoning or unbotzQtoning of the garment is eliminated except for the purpose of donning or removing the garment. When the portion 19 of the leg is tucked into the legA as illustrated, it,normally remains insuch position without 25 the aid ofany fastening means. lVhe'n the principleofconstruction; is applied to pajamas, it is readily apparentthat duringillness,'the, use of a bed pan is greatly facilitated. Applied to any nether garment, how- I ever, it wiillbe apparent that the principle of construction affords unusual comfort to the wearer, in that binding at the seat and crotch portions is positively precluded. In view of the fact that the garment may be assembled in an opened up condition as illustrated in Figure 5, it is evident that stitching orsewing of the elements together is, great-1y facilitated, which makes for economy of production. I

What is claimed is:

In a nether garment, a split waist band and a pair of legs connected to each otheronly at the waist band and disconnected from each other throughout the seat, fly and crotch portions, and a continuous strip of material attached to] and extending throughout the length of the innermost free edge of one of the legs, ,saidstrip constituting a lateral extension of said leg and being fashioned so that the free edge thereof is of a lesser length than the innermost free edge of the leg to'which it is attached whereby said extension, when thegarment is donned, assumes a substantially semi-conical form which tends to normally cause it to freely extend into the other leg tomaintain the fly, crotch and seat portions of the garment in a closed condition.

Signed at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, this 16th day of March, A. D. 1929.

' CHARLES W. HUT CHINSON i 

